#surveillancecities — Public Fediverse posts
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Canadians were treated to an announcement involving the leaders of all three levels of government gushing and fawning about an enlightened urban partnership with a foreign company whose business model is built exclusively on the principle of mass surveillance … Eric Schmidt, Google’s former executive chair, said they had realized their long-running dream for “someone to give us a city and put us in charge.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-sidewalk-toronto-is-not-a-smart-city/